SSA’s Testimony on Duty Evasion
John Williams, executive director of the Southern Shrimp Alliance, testified before the Ways and Means committee today on evasion of antidumping duties on shrimp. The hearing addressed the challenges...
View ArticleSSA’s John Williams Testifies before House Subcommittee on Need to Strengthen...
Today Southern Shrimp Alliance’s Executive Director John Williams presented expert testimony before Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) and other Members of the Ways & Means Committee’s Subcommittee on...
View ArticleRead the February 2012 Customs Ruling providing internal advice regarding...
King Prince Request for Advice
View ArticleGAO Report Confirms Improvements in the Trade Adjustment Assistance for...
In December of 2006, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report following a review of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) administration of the Trade Adjustment Assistance...
View ArticleRep. Boustany Shepherds PROTECT Act into Ways & Means Bill, Furthers Efforts...
For Immediate Release Contact: Deborah Long, 804.360.0074 Tarpon Springs, Florida—Ways & Means Trade Subcommittee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) introduced today the Customs Trade Facilitation and...
View ArticleNews Alert: The Petitions for Countervailing Duties
On Friday, December 28, petitions for trade relief from subsidized shrimp imports from seven countries were filed with the U.S. government. These petitions were filed by the Coalition of Gulf Shrimp...
View ArticleSSA Condemns Criminal Defamation Case Filed Against Prominent Labor Activist...
In a letter sent today to U.S. Ambassador-at-Large Luis CdeBaca of the U.S. Department of State’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, the Southern Shrimp Alliance expressed grave...
View ArticleFederal Court of Appeals Authorizes Commerce to Consider Evidence Regarding...
On Friday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a non-precedential per curiam opinion granting the government’s request to reopen the 4th annual review of the antidumping...
View ArticleKnow Your Supplier: The Broken Record, Banned Antibiotics, and Vietnamese Shrimp
Through the first third of this year, shrimp imports from Vietnam have more than doubled in volume from the first four months in 2013. Currently, Vietnam is the fourth largest shrimp supplier to the...
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Annual Board Meeting 2015 Update
Several proposed regulations and legal decisions to be made in 2016 threaten to harm U.S. shrimp fishermen and processors. The impacts range from added expenses to meet new safety regulations, to...
View ArticleLetter from Representative Boustany to SSA re: PROTECT Act
Representative Boustany (R-LA) sent a letter to thank SSA and its membership for its important work on behalf of the industry and to announce that his bill, the PROTECT Act, was sent to President Obama...
View ArticleCourt of International Trade Rejects Foreign Exporter and U.S. Importer...
On Friday, the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) issued the public version of a 101-page decision rejecting numerous challenges brought by Vietnamese shrimp exporters and U.S. seafood importers...
View ArticleFDA Issues Import Alert on Peninsular Malaysian Shrimp
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued Import Alert 16-136, “Detention without Physical Examination of Aquacultured Shrimp and Prawns from Peninsular Malaysia Due to Presence of Drug...
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Influx of Indian Shrimp in the U.S. Market Causes Health Concerns
India is the leading source of shrimp found by FDA to be contaminated with either salmonella or banned antibiotics In August 2013, the U.S. Department of Commerce issued a final determination finding...
View ArticleEuropean Commission Audit Report Reveals Reasons for Flood of Indian Shrimp...
On November 8th, the European Commission’s Directorate General for Health and Food Safety made public the report of its audit and evaluation of the Indian government’s control of residues and...
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World Antibiotic Awareness Week 2018 Comes to a Close This Weekend
The Southern Shrimp Alliance reached more than a million unique individuals with messages about the use of antibiotics in aquaculture as part of World Antibiotic Awareness Week (Nov 12-18), a global...
View ArticleU.S. Customs and Border Protection Reports That Over $60 Million in...
The Department of Homeland Security recently publicly released U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) annual report to Congress regarding antidumping and countervailing duty enforcement for fiscal...
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Even With More Rejections in November, 2018 Likely to Have Lowest Number of...
For the month of November, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reports that 4 out of the 61 (6.6%) total seafood entry line refusals were of shrimp for reasons related to banned antibiotics....
View ArticleShrimp Hits Record High Levels of Consumption in United States
Shrimp remains the most consumed seafood in the United States, returning in 2017 to its highest consumption level of 4.4 pounds per person according to NOAA Fisheries’ “Fisheries of the United States”...
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